segunda-feira, 7 de setembro de 2015

Outcome of the Climate Finance Ministerial

John Kerry - Secretary of StateWashington, DC - September 6, 2015

This weekend in Paris, the United States and Switzerland hosted
senior officials from 18 developed countries to discuss our
collaborative efforts to scale up climate finance for developing
nations, and to provide increased transparency on our progress. Our
countries are working together towards a goal that President Obama and
other heads of state set nearly six years ago in Copenhagen: to mobilize
– from public and private sources – $100 billion a year by 2020 to help
the developing world address both the causes and impacts of climate
change. This goal was set in the context of meaningful climate
mitigation actions and transparency on implementation.
Today, at the halfway mark to 2020, we are well on our way to
achieving this $100 billion goal. Data from sources such as the World
Bank and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes
clear that climate finance is flowing at significant levels, and there
is ongoing work to produce improved estimates in the coming weeks. We
all have a stake in enabling climate finance to continue to flow at
scale.
The science is crystal clear: The threat posed by climate change is
as global as it gets. Without global cooperation, the impacts will be
devastating – and they will extend to every country on Earth.
The ambitious and durable agreement we aim to conclude later this
year in Paris must be consistent with economic realities in the next
decade and beyond. The scale of the climate change challenge demands an
effective global partnership that brings to bear resources from all
available channels to assist those most in need. Continued collaboration
on climate finance, like the discussions this weekend, is critical to
meeting this global challenge.